From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 09:28:54 EDT
--- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:26:46AM +0100, Andrew
> Dunbar wrote:
> > > abi-dev. We load a document, map the fonts, and
> when
> > > we save it we have something like
> > > "explicit-font:Arial",
> > > "mapped-font:zz_AbiWordUglyArial".
> >
> > Why save mapped-font at all ? That seems like a
> needless
> > complication.
>
> From a web background i can understand why you might
> not see the use fo
> this but the kind of people who like WYSIWYG and
> like to specify as
> exactly as possible what a document is going to look
> like will probably
I'm with Jody here. The mapping algorithm has 2
parts: a fixed, reproducible one, and a second part
driven by user preferences. We should not impose the
font alias preferences of the author of the document
in the reader of the document.
In addition, nothing forces the reader to have the
"mapped" font in his system. So, when this
information becomes useful in the reading of the
document? I don't see it useful at all.
Cheers,
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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